Your Child’s Cough
When your child coughs, their body is doing its job. A cough is a reflex that clears fluid from the throat and chest. It happens when nerve…
Detecting Learning Disabilities
A learning disability is a problem that affects how a person receives and processes information. People with learning disabilities may have trouble with any of the following:…
What to Expect After Your Child Gets Vaccines
Vaccines protect your child from serious diseases like polio, measles, and whooping cough. But like all medicines, they can sometimes come with side effects. Most of the…
Children’s Vaccines: The Basics
Your baby is born with some protection from illness because they get special proteins from their mother called antibodies before they’re born. But it’s temporary, and the…
His Turn: 8 Options in the Pipeline for Male Birth Control
1 / 11 Current Birth Control Options for Men Besides abstinence from sex, the currently available birth control for men are condoms and vasectomy. Condoms are a…
Other Reasons to Use Birth Control
1 / 10 More Than Pregnancy Prevention Hormonal birth control includes pills, patches, vaginal rings, and intrauterine devices (IUDs). Most have synthetic progesterone (progestin) and estrogen, but…
10 Things to Know About Birth Control If You’re Transgender or Nonbinary
1 / 10 Using Birth Control If You’re Transgender or Nonbinary Any person having sex should think about contraception. This is also the case if you’re transgender…
How Hormonal Birth Control Can Affect Your Mood
Lots of people get irritable, depressed, or feel out of sorts just before their monthly periods. These can be symptoms of a common condition called premenstrual syndrome…
Birth Control and Breast Size
When you start using hormonal birth control, your breasts might feel a little swollen or look a little bigger. This is usually temporary and goes away within…
Birth Control and Spotting: What to Know
If you go on a hormonal form of birth control, you might expect it to help with pesky bleeding. But breakthrough bleeding is a common side effect…